Parent vs Child Theme

shamrockwishes · September 2014

I uploaded the betheme.zip file per your instructions. I have worked on that all day today. Now I see on some of the discussions that people are using the betheme-child.zip file so that they can update the theme via the parent file. So I deleted the theme, so that I could start again with the child theme. However when I upload the parent (because I can't upload the child until the parent is uploaded) it shows all the changes that I made to the theme colors, layout etc.

How can I start fresh with the parent theme so that it is exactly as it was when I uploaded it the first time?

Thank you in advance for urgent help with this. I am in limbo until I can get help.

Albert · September 2014

Your current settings probably comes from database. We recommend to remove whole wordpress with database and make fresh install again (please remember about database removing).

shamrockwishes · September 2014

Thank you. Where do I find the database?

Albert · September 2014

It is on your server. Probably via panel like plesk or direct admin you should be able to remove it. If you have no idea how, then you should contact with hosting provider.

shamrockwishes · September 2014

Thank you.

shamrockwishes · September 2014

I spoke with GoDaddy, and they said I would lose everything if I delete the database. Which I don't want to do, as I have posts on there for my blog for the last 4 years. So my next question is - can I leave the parent theme the way it is and then be able to use the updates when you release them in the future?

Note: I didn't make any changes to parent theme CSS, only some of the theme option changes like which header to use etc. And I also re-set the them to "default".

Albert · September 2014

We don`t think so it could be done other way. This is how wordpress themes works like. Maybe you should contact with your website developer and hop he will be able to find any workaround for your needs.

Thanks for understanding!

shamrockwishes · September 2014

Is it possible to keep updating the parent theme in the future even though I made a few small changes via the layout options (no CSS changes)?

Albert · September 2014

Probably for that you need to update files manually but we are not sure if this will work properly because we never tested it. So you must test it yourself.

Parent vs Child Theme

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